A concise companion to Milton / edited by Angelica Duran.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-269) and index.

Content as of: Jan. 17, 2008; title from title screen.

Cover -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction Angelica Duran -- Part I Surveys -- Chapter 1 A Reading of His "left hand": Milton's Prose Robert Thomas Fallon -- Chapter 2 "Shedding sweet influence": The Legacy of John Milton's Works John T. Shawcross -- Chapter 3 "The world all before [us]": More than Three Hundred Years of Criticism Roy Flannagan -- Part II Textual Sites -- Chapter 4 First and Last Fruits of Education: The Companion Poems, Epistola, and Educational Prose Works Angelica Duran -- Chapter 5 Milton's Heroic Sonnets Annabel Patterson -- Chapter 6 The Lives of Lycidas Paul Alpers -- Chapter 7 A Mask: Tradition and Innovation Katsuhiro Engetsu -- Chapter 8 The Bible, Religion, and Spirituality in Paradise Lost Achsah Guibbory -- Chapter 9 Gender, Sex, and Marriage in Paradise Karen L. Edwards -- Chapter 10 The Ecology of Paradise Lost Juliet Lucy Cummins -- Chapter 11 The Messianic Vision of Paradise Regained David Gay -- Chapter 12 The Nightmare of History: Samson Agonistes Louis Schwartz -- Part III Reference Points -- Select Chronology "Speak of things at hand/ Useful" Compiled by Edward Jones -- Select Bibliography "Much arguing, much writing, many opinions" Compiled by J. Martin Evans -- Index -- Last Page.